Monday, September 13, 2010

Karate Kid: Part 1, 2 and 3

So, of course, our kids take karate.
Isabelle started when she was 5 years old and Buddy did prekarate for a year and now he has just joined the kids class too since he is 5.

I took some pics of the kids tonight after class.

I showed Sam this pic of Belle and he said, "wow, she looks so grown up. I don't like that."
Agreed.
But, I love that she does karate. This girl is so very sweet, but she knows how to take care of herself. I've seen her in action and I don't worry too much about some teenage boy trying to get fresh with her one day. She'll put him on the floor (and then if she can find her Daddy fast enough she'll probably want to taze the young man while he is still stunned from her ability to take care of herself, hee hee).

Oh and she is a yellow belt, I need to go buy her a belt! Argh!

Buddy loves karate. Loves loves loves it.
This is the only half decent picture I got of him. He only wanted to do super hero poses and I MADE him do a normal post. Argh.

I think karate will teach him more self control. Of course that is one of the principles of the discipline Sam teaches, so it had better!

And then our littlest martial artist (in waiting). Oh, how he wants to be in on the action too. He practices so much and tries to talk Daddy into taking him on a weekly basis! 2 1/2 more years little boy.

I appear to the the only one who won't be able to escape a band of ninjas!
Of course I am like Indiana Jones and while they use all their fancy karate skilz, I'll just bludgeon people with a skillet (since I don't know how to shoot a gun I have to go with an easier weapon).

Favorite Quotes

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.- Mark Twain

Lose your life in service and you will become great.Do What is right, even when it is difficult, especially when it is difficult. Do not make the mistake of being a social climber. Of course you will want to use your knowledge and skills and talents to do great things. But do them because they are right, because they are good, not because they make you look good.There may also be those who discount or undermine your attempts to improve the world, who laugh at your educational or career choice. Let them. And while you let them, quietly set out to serve them. You are not changing the world to impress them, you are doing it because it is right.-"A Thomas Jefferson Education" Oliver DeMille

I know thou works, that thou are neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spue thee out of my mouth.-New Testament, Revalations 3:15-16

Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; you are raising a human being.-Kittie Franz

Make careful, slow choices about the people you include in your child's life--- and fast choices about the ones you exclude from your child's life.-Gavin De Becker

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the Strong.-Mahatma Gandhi

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.-Frederick Douglass

In God we trust; all others we run through NCIC.-police quote

The greatest love story never told

Sambodini and Kimberlina (or Sam and Kimber if you want to be boring about it.)

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Police Wives Prayer

Dear God, give me COURAGE, for perhaps I lackit more than anything else.I need COURAGE as I witness my husband'sdeparture for duty each day.I need COURAGE as I see him put on his uniformbecause I know the abuse that perhapshe will be subjected to before he returnsfrom his tour of duty.I need COURAGE in dealing with the childrenwhen he is working long hoursduring demonstrations or on aninvestigationI need COURAGE when tensions buildup onthe job and pressures at hometo mount and life becomes almosttoo much to bear.I need COURAGE to stand firm and not tosuccumb to the urge to run awayfrom problems.Help me to have the strength to be aCOURAGEOUS and Valiant Woman,when I learn from the media that a"police officer's been hurt."The next time I waver or grow faint-hearted,Help me, O Divine Master,to be COURAGEOUS.And, having found the source of strength inYou, Help me to reach out toothers, who may be justas scared as I.